News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Human smuggler could get death

Convicted in his second trial over Victoria deaths, he may be first to die under '94 law
By HARVEY RICE
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

Tyrone Williams listened stoically in a Houston courtroom Monday as a jury brought him one step closer to a possible death sentence for a failed smuggling attempt that cost 19 illegal immigrants their lives.

In their fifth day of deliberation, jurors found Williams guilty on all 58 federal smuggling counts he faced, including 20 that carry a possible death sentence.

They will begin hearing testimony Wednesday in a sentencing phase that will decide whether he becomes the first person condemned under a 1994 smuggling law that allows execution even if a defendant intended no harm.

"The jury has to decide whether to save a human being's life, so everything is on the table," said defense attorney Craig Washington, who acknowledged that he didn't take the verdict as well as his client did.

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